Aloma vs Aloysius

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Aloma Aloysius

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Aloysius for 140 years and Aloma for 6 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

• 1880–1940 Aloysius ahead
• 1941–1944 Aloma ahead
• 1945–1946 Aloysius ahead
• 1947 Aloma ahead
• 1948–1971 Aloysius ahead
• 1972 Aloma ahead
• 1973–2025 Aloysius ahead

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Alomas alive today are over 78; half the Aloysiuses are over 49. That is 29 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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